Example sentences of "not of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 2 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 3 | Its constitutionalization is a direct result , not of this already widespread opinion , but of Roman catholic pressure of the monopoly type . |
| 4 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 5 | I sometimes feel sorry , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that I am not of their kind . |
| 6 | Nevertheless I feel that I have a responsibility to the public and to the world of art both to present your unpublished writings in as comprehensible a form as possible , and at the same time to correct some of the misleading impressions these might give , not of course about yourself , but about others , casually mentioned here and there in the course of your jottings . |
| 7 | Born to the pack , but not of it . |
| 8 | But Leonard is not of that cloth ; his nature is obsessive ; what he does , he must do with abandon ; he has to work in total conviction , and dedication . |
| 9 | Hence the prominence of such words as ‘ comfort ’ in his writings ; not of their plush armchairs or velvet drapes , but the comfort of a quiet mind and a balanced equilibrium in life . |
| 10 | But somewhat surprisingly ( given that the representational theory of the mind is supposed to be a theory of thinking , not of how we handle inputs ) he concludes that a psychology of the central systems is beyond our reach : the more global a mental process is the less we are likely to understand about it . |
| 11 | Neurons do not individually have the property of consciousness , consciousness emerges when a large number of neurons are interacting in the right kind of way ; just as speed is a property not of any single component of a car , but an emergent property of the whole system when it is operating in an appropriate way . |
| 12 | ‘ What a strange demand ! ’ says Lebyadkin with an effrontery beyond the man we have been given , though not of course beyond old Karamazov . |
| 13 | And what about Stavrogin as he stands smiling , not of course a happy smile , no kind of unambiguous smile , about to enter the monastery , fingering the pages in his pocket ? |
| 14 | Such a material does not of course exist … or does it ? |
| 15 | Make a note of the values at maximum and minimum and if they are not of equal magnitude adjust the zero-offset trimpot so as to make them equal . |
| 16 | This does not of course , apply to Yagi antennas , which are more or less unidirectional . |
| 17 | ‘ Theory ’ , to be intellectually respectable , has to be presented as such , and to be a product of the academy , not of the amorphous institution of literature . |
| 18 | For a time teachers of literature could assume that they were in but not of the academy , and keep a healthy distance from institutional pressures . |
| 19 | In English Studies this is the world of Morris Zapp , not of Phillip Swallow . |
| 20 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 21 | Colonel Blimp today is likely to be a Roundhead colonel , in his professed sentiments a Leveller , though not of course in his practices . |
| 22 | It was not easy to think of a precedent , and one could be forgiven for concluding that the notorious obscurity of the poem came about not by the author 's design but accidentally , because the work was the product not of one mind but of two . |
| 23 | Annoyed as we may be at having the cardinal terms left thus undefined ( for Pound proceeds no further towards defining them ) , we are compelled to see that this criticism is not of the chalk-or-cheese , sheep-and-goats variety ; the discrimination proposed is more subtle — between a quality in poetry that is ‘ nearly always ’ a virtue ( ’ I can think of no case where it is not' ) , and an opposite quality that is ‘ not always ’ a fault . |
| 24 | ‘ My anticipation is that we will certainly see a rise on Monday — not of the same proportion , but there 's clearly going to be a rise . |
| 25 | Last year 's entry was not of sufficient quality . |
| 26 | ‘ It is not an empty claim to say that this conference is one of progress , indeed one of celebration , not of relaxation or complacency . ’ |
| 27 | Inevitably , the impression is not of unified excellence , but of a sort of march-past of British theatrical talent . |
| 28 | The plastic the French company uses for its interior trimmings is not of high quality and looks brittle and cheap , and in most places it sounds not to be screwed as tightly down as the designers originally intended . |
| 29 | Aesthetes among the novices will by now be thoroughly irritable and complaining that gardens should have as much to do with the soul as with the necessity or not of a washing line or a barbecue pit . |
| 30 | Of his study visits to pre-war Vienna , his strongest memories were not of virtuosos but of composers conducting , notably Richard Strauss directing his operas and Anton Webern the symphonies of Mahler . |